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'I Forgot,' 'I Didn't Know': Guns, Excuses Piling Up At Newark Airport Checkpoints 'I Forgot,' 'I Didn't Know': Guns, Excuses Piling Up At Newark Airport Checkpoints
'I Forgot,' 'I Didn't Know': Guns, Excuses Piling Up At Newark Airport Checkpoints It doesn’t rank with airports in Atlanta, Houston or Dallas in terms of numbers, but Newark Liberty has had what the TSA and Port Authority say are an alarming amount of guns seized from passengers trying to board planes with them. And most of those things are loaded. It's become an epidemic, said Thomas Carter, the Transportation Security Administration’s director for New Jersey, during a Wednesday news conference at the airport. “Guns and ammunition are never allowed to pass through a security checkpoint to be carried onto a flight, even if a traveler has a concealed carry permit,” Cart…

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Fugitive Wanted In 2017 Paterson Street Slaying Nabbed Trying To Re-Enter US From DR Fugitive Wanted In 2017 Paterson Street Slaying Nabbed Trying To Re-Enter US From DR
Fugitive Wanted In 2017 Paterson Street Slaying Nabbed Trying To Re-Enter US From DR Federal agents were waiting at an Atlanta airport when a fugitive accused of gunning down a man on a Paterson street nearly two years ago tried to slip back into the country from the Dominican Republic, authorities said Tuesday. Elisaul Marte, 29, was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents after getting off a plane at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Saturday, they said. He was being held pending extradition to New Jersey to face charges of murder and weapons possession in the slaying of 28 year-old Ramon Mosquea, whose was found slumped over the hood of his…

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by Jerry DeMarco